Word: bolds
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Second, and more important, Harvard has an opportunity as one of the most respected institutions in the world to make a bold public statement against apartheid. By putting its money where its mouth is, the University can demonstrate that as an institution devoted solely to the relentless search for and dissemination of truth, it stands for an end to the immoral, racist policies of South Africa...
...programs, including loans by the Small Business Administration and the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak and urban mass transportation, and general revenue- sharing grants to cities and counties. The fact that nearly all of these slashes have been well publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan...
...eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house. The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian...
...above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts, I'm sure you can do it all without studying...
...from TV, and he staged a white-knuckle showdown among the networks. The absolute ceiling to shoot for, his own staff counseled, was $150 million. Ueberroth wanted more. He and others hatched what was, in effect, a one-shot blind bidding contest, and ABC, pulled along by the bold auctioneering, shut out the competition with a shocker of a bid: $225 million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been...